Court
PERFORMANCES
AND MASQUES.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06
The Stage-Craft of Shakespere.
Noctes Shaksperianae.
A Series of Papers by late and present Members of the Winchester
College Shakspere Society, p. 121. Winchester, 1887.
Jullien, A. Les spectateurs sur le théâtre. Établissement et suppression
des bancs sur les scènes de la Comédie-Française et de l'Opéra. Paris,
1875.
Kilian, E. Die scenischen Formen Shakespeare's in ihrer Beziehung zu der
Aufführung seiner Dramen auf der modernen Bühne. Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XXVIII, p. 90. 1893.
Shakespeare auf der modernen Bühne. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXII,
p. 228. 1900.
Kirkman, F. The Wits, or, Sport upon Sport. . . . Now newly Collected by
your Old Friend to please you, Francis Kirkman. London, Printed for
Fran. Kirkman, and are to be sold by most Book-Sellers. 1673. (The
frontispiece is a representation of a stage. ]
Koeppel, R. Die unkritische Behandlung dramaturgischer Angaben und
Anordnungen in den Shakespeare-Ausgaben und die Beirrung der
Erkenntnisse in Bezug auf die archäische Gestaltungsweise der alten-
glischen Dramatik. Engl. Stud. vol. xxxiv, p. 1. 1904.
Lawrence, W. J. Some characteristics of the Elizabethan-Stuart Stage.
Engl. Stud. vol. XXXII, p. 36. 1903.
Plays within plays. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXIII, p. 384. 1904.
Lee, S. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Playgoer. An English Miscellany,
p. 235. Oxford, 1901.
Logeman, H. Johannes de Witt's Visit to the Swan Theatre. Anglia,
vol. xix, pp. 117-134. 1897.
Mönkemeyer, P. Prolegomena zu eines Darstellung der englischen
Volksbühne zur Elisabeth- und Stuart-Zeit. Hanover and Leipzig, 1905.
Moulton, R. G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1893.
Prölss, R. Altenglisches Theater. (Meyer's Klassiker-Ausgaben. ) 2 vols.
[1904. )
Von den ältesten Drucken der Dramen Shakespeares und dem Einflusse,
den die damaligen Londoner Theater und ihre Einrichtungen auf diese
Dramen ausgeübt haben. Leipzig, 1905.
Reynolds, G. F. Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging. Rptd from
Modern Philology, vol. 11, 1904-5, p. 581 (April 1905) and vol. II, no. 1,
p. 69 (June 1905). Chicago, 1905.
Trees on the stage of Shakespeare. Modern Philology, vol. v, no. 2
p. 153. 1907-8.
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Richards, N. The Tragedy of Messallina. London printed for Dan. Frere.
1640. [The title-page gives a representation of a stage. ]
Shakespeare, W. The Works of William Shakespeare. In 10 vols. The
Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, 1907. Vol. x contains The
Stage of the Globe, by Chambers, E. K. , pp. 351-362; On the influence of
the audience, by Bridges, R. , pp. 321-334.
Stopes, C. C. Elizabethan Stage Scenery. The Fortnightly Review, June
1907, p. 1107.
Walkley, A. B. Drama and Life. 1907.
Wallace, C. W. Globe Theatre Apparel. Privately printed. (1909. ]
Wegener, Richard. Die Bühneneinrichtung des Shakespeareschen Theaters
nach der zeitgenössischen Dramen. Halle, 1907.
Wheatley, H. B. The London Stage in Elizabeth's reign. Lecture delivered
at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting,
Friday, 7 February 1890.
On a contemporary drawing of the Interior of the Swan Theatre, 1596.
Read at the 137th Meeting of the New Shakspere Society, Friday,
9 November 1888.
V. BIOGRAPHICAL.
See Malone, Collier, Halliwell-Phillipps (Outlines) and Henslowe's Diary,
as above.
Collier, J. P. Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, Founder of Dulwich College:
including some new particulars respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
Massinger, Marston, Dekker, eto. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1841.
Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare. Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1846.
Alleyn Papers. (See Collier, J. P. , in sec. II, ante. ]
Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shake-
speare, Player, Poet, and Playmaker. 1886.
Fuller, T. The History of the Worthies of England. London, Printed by
J. G. W. L. and W. G. MDCLXII. New ed. Ed. Nichols, J. 2 vols.
1811.
Lee, S. A Life of William Shakespeare. 5th ed. 1905.
Rendle, W. Philip Henslowe. The Genealogist, New Ser. vol. iv, p. 149.
1887.
Rimbault, E. F. Who was Jack Wilson, the Singer of Shakespeare's
stage? An attempt to prove the identity of this person with John
Wilson, Doctor of Musick. 1846.
Young, W. The History of Dulwich College, with a Life of the Founder,
Edward Alleyn, and an accurate transcript of his Diary, 1617-1622.
2 vols. 1889.
VI.
Court PERFORMANCES AND MASQUES.
See Collier and Chambers, as above; and see bibliography to chap. XII,
post.
VII. PROVINCIAL AND FOREIGN TOURS.
Bolte, J. Englische Komödianten in Dänemark und Scheweden. Shakesp.
Jahrb. vol. XXIV, p. 99. 1888.
Englische Komödianten in Münster und Ulm. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXXVI, p. 273. 1900.
Cohn, A. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries: an account of English Actors in Germany and the Nether-
lands and of the Plays performed by them during the same period. 1865.
En L. VI.
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Cohn, A. Englische Komödianten in Köln (1592-1656). Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XXI, p. 245. 1886.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. The Visits of Shakespeare's Company of Actors
to the Provincial Cities and Towns of England, illustrated by Extracts
gathered from Corporate Records. Privately printed. 1886. See also
The Athenæum, no. 3094, 12 Feb. 1887, p. 232.
Harris, C. The English Comedians in Germany before the Thirty Years'
War: The Financial Side. Publications of Mod. Lang. Assoc. of America,
vol. xxII, no. 2 (New Ser. xv, no. 3), p. 446. September, 1907.
Herz, E. Englische Schauspieler und englisches Schauspiel zur Zeit Shake-
speares in Deutschland. Theatergeschichtliche Forschungen. Ed.
Litzmann, B. Part 18. Hamburg and Leipzig, 1903.
Laneham, R. Robert Laneham's Letter: Describing a part of the entertain-
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Furnivall, F. J. (The Shakespeare Library. ) 1907.
Maas, H. Aussere Geschichte der Englischen Theatertruppen in dem Zeit-
raum von 1559 bis 1642. Bang's Materialien, vol. xix. Louvain,
Leipzig and London, 1907.
Meissner, J. Die englischen Komödianten zur Zeit Shakespeares in Oester-
reich. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xix, p. 113. 1884.
Moryson, F. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the
Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland,
Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ire-
land. Written by Fynes Moryson Gent. 4 vols. Glasgow, 1907-8.
Shakespeare's Europe. Unpublished chapters of Fynes Moryson's
Itinerary. . . . Ed. Hughes, C. 1903.
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1550-1600. Modern Philology, vol. 11, p. 539. April, 1905.
Nichols, J. The Progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth.
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the First, his royal consort, family and court. 4 vols. 1828.
Trautmann, K. Englische Komödianten in Nürnberg, 1593–1648 [and other
papers on English actors in Germany, etc. ). Archiv für Literaturgesch.
vols. XIV and xv.
VIII. THE OFFICE OF THE REVELS.
See Cunningham, Feuillerat, Halliwell-Phillippe's Collection of Ancient
Documents, and Wallace's Children of the Chapel, as above.
Chambers, E. K. Notes on the History of the Revels Office under the
Tudors. 1906.
Feuillerat, A. Le Bureau des Menus-Plaisirs (Office of the Revels) et la
Mise en scène à la cour d'Élizabeth. Louvain, 1910.
(See also bibliography to chap. XI, post. )
IX. FOOLS AND CLOWNS.
See Chambers, as above.
Armin, R. Fools and Jesters: with a reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of
Ninnies. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
The Works of Robert Armin, Actor (1605-9). Ed. Grosart, A. B. 1880.
Bolte, J. Die Singspiele der englischen Komödianten in Deutschland.
Hamburg, 1893. [Modelled on the clown's jigs. ]
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467
a
Johnson, L. P. The Fools of Shakspere, by L. P. Johnson, in Hawkins,
C. H. , Noctes Shaksperianae, p. 171. 1887. (See sec. IV, ante. )
Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder; performed in a daance from London to Norwich.
Camden Soc. Publ. 1840. Also ed. Arber, E. 1883.
Tarlton's Jests and News out of Purgatory. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O.
Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1844.
Thümmel, J. Ueber Shakespeare's Narren. Shakesp. Jabrb. vol. ix, p. 87.
1874.
Ueber Shakespeare's Clowns. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XI, p. 78. 1876.
CHAPTER XI
THE CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL AND THEIR
MASTERS
See the books of reference mentioned in General Bibliography, such as
Collier, Creizenach, Fleay, Schelling and Ward, with Stationers' register,
and Halliwell-Phillipps's Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. The important
legal documents quoted are accessible in full only in Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage and in Halliwell-Phillipps. For editions of the plays mentioned see
the bibliographies of other chapters, especially chaps. IV-VII and xIII of vol. v,
and chaps. II and xil of the present volume.
Albrecht, Alexander. Das englische Kindertheater. (Diss. ) Halle-Witten-
berg, 1883.
Baker, G. P. Endymion The Man in the Moon, by John Lyly, M.
A Series of Papers by late and present Members of the Winchester
College Shakspere Society, p. 121. Winchester, 1887.
Jullien, A. Les spectateurs sur le théâtre. Établissement et suppression
des bancs sur les scènes de la Comédie-Française et de l'Opéra. Paris,
1875.
Kilian, E. Die scenischen Formen Shakespeare's in ihrer Beziehung zu der
Aufführung seiner Dramen auf der modernen Bühne. Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XXVIII, p. 90. 1893.
Shakespeare auf der modernen Bühne. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXII,
p. 228. 1900.
Kirkman, F. The Wits, or, Sport upon Sport. . . . Now newly Collected by
your Old Friend to please you, Francis Kirkman. London, Printed for
Fran. Kirkman, and are to be sold by most Book-Sellers. 1673. (The
frontispiece is a representation of a stage. ]
Koeppel, R. Die unkritische Behandlung dramaturgischer Angaben und
Anordnungen in den Shakespeare-Ausgaben und die Beirrung der
Erkenntnisse in Bezug auf die archäische Gestaltungsweise der alten-
glischen Dramatik. Engl. Stud. vol. xxxiv, p. 1. 1904.
Lawrence, W. J. Some characteristics of the Elizabethan-Stuart Stage.
Engl. Stud. vol. XXXII, p. 36. 1903.
Plays within plays. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXIII, p. 384. 1904.
Lee, S. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Playgoer. An English Miscellany,
p. 235. Oxford, 1901.
Logeman, H. Johannes de Witt's Visit to the Swan Theatre. Anglia,
vol. xix, pp. 117-134. 1897.
Mönkemeyer, P. Prolegomena zu eines Darstellung der englischen
Volksbühne zur Elisabeth- und Stuart-Zeit. Hanover and Leipzig, 1905.
Moulton, R. G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1893.
Prölss, R. Altenglisches Theater. (Meyer's Klassiker-Ausgaben. ) 2 vols.
[1904. )
Von den ältesten Drucken der Dramen Shakespeares und dem Einflusse,
den die damaligen Londoner Theater und ihre Einrichtungen auf diese
Dramen ausgeübt haben. Leipzig, 1905.
Reynolds, G. F. Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging. Rptd from
Modern Philology, vol. 11, 1904-5, p. 581 (April 1905) and vol. II, no. 1,
p. 69 (June 1905). Chicago, 1905.
Trees on the stage of Shakespeare. Modern Philology, vol. v, no. 2
p. 153. 1907-8.
## p. 465 (#483) ############################################
Chapter X
465
Richards, N. The Tragedy of Messallina. London printed for Dan. Frere.
1640. [The title-page gives a representation of a stage. ]
Shakespeare, W. The Works of William Shakespeare. In 10 vols. The
Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, 1907. Vol. x contains The
Stage of the Globe, by Chambers, E. K. , pp. 351-362; On the influence of
the audience, by Bridges, R. , pp. 321-334.
Stopes, C. C. Elizabethan Stage Scenery. The Fortnightly Review, June
1907, p. 1107.
Walkley, A. B. Drama and Life. 1907.
Wallace, C. W. Globe Theatre Apparel. Privately printed. (1909. ]
Wegener, Richard. Die Bühneneinrichtung des Shakespeareschen Theaters
nach der zeitgenössischen Dramen. Halle, 1907.
Wheatley, H. B. The London Stage in Elizabeth's reign. Lecture delivered
at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting,
Friday, 7 February 1890.
On a contemporary drawing of the Interior of the Swan Theatre, 1596.
Read at the 137th Meeting of the New Shakspere Society, Friday,
9 November 1888.
V. BIOGRAPHICAL.
See Malone, Collier, Halliwell-Phillipps (Outlines) and Henslowe's Diary,
as above.
Collier, J. P. Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, Founder of Dulwich College:
including some new particulars respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
Massinger, Marston, Dekker, eto. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1841.
Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare. Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1846.
Alleyn Papers. (See Collier, J. P. , in sec. II, ante. ]
Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shake-
speare, Player, Poet, and Playmaker. 1886.
Fuller, T. The History of the Worthies of England. London, Printed by
J. G. W. L. and W. G. MDCLXII. New ed. Ed. Nichols, J. 2 vols.
1811.
Lee, S. A Life of William Shakespeare. 5th ed. 1905.
Rendle, W. Philip Henslowe. The Genealogist, New Ser. vol. iv, p. 149.
1887.
Rimbault, E. F. Who was Jack Wilson, the Singer of Shakespeare's
stage? An attempt to prove the identity of this person with John
Wilson, Doctor of Musick. 1846.
Young, W. The History of Dulwich College, with a Life of the Founder,
Edward Alleyn, and an accurate transcript of his Diary, 1617-1622.
2 vols. 1889.
VI.
Court PERFORMANCES AND MASQUES.
See Collier and Chambers, as above; and see bibliography to chap. XII,
post.
VII. PROVINCIAL AND FOREIGN TOURS.
Bolte, J. Englische Komödianten in Dänemark und Scheweden. Shakesp.
Jahrb. vol. XXIV, p. 99. 1888.
Englische Komödianten in Münster und Ulm. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXXVI, p. 273. 1900.
Cohn, A. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries: an account of English Actors in Germany and the Nether-
lands and of the Plays performed by them during the same period. 1865.
En L. VI.
30
## p. 466 (#484) ############################################
466
Bibliography
Cohn, A. Englische Komödianten in Köln (1592-1656). Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XXI, p. 245. 1886.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. The Visits of Shakespeare's Company of Actors
to the Provincial Cities and Towns of England, illustrated by Extracts
gathered from Corporate Records. Privately printed. 1886. See also
The Athenæum, no. 3094, 12 Feb. 1887, p. 232.
Harris, C. The English Comedians in Germany before the Thirty Years'
War: The Financial Side. Publications of Mod. Lang. Assoc. of America,
vol. xxII, no. 2 (New Ser. xv, no. 3), p. 446. September, 1907.
Herz, E. Englische Schauspieler und englisches Schauspiel zur Zeit Shake-
speares in Deutschland. Theatergeschichtliche Forschungen. Ed.
Litzmann, B. Part 18. Hamburg and Leipzig, 1903.
Laneham, R. Robert Laneham's Letter: Describing a part of the entertain-
ment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575. Ed
Furnivall, F. J. (The Shakespeare Library. ) 1907.
Maas, H. Aussere Geschichte der Englischen Theatertruppen in dem Zeit-
raum von 1559 bis 1642. Bang's Materialien, vol. xix. Louvain,
Leipzig and London, 1907.
Meissner, J. Die englischen Komödianten zur Zeit Shakespeares in Oester-
reich. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xix, p. 113. 1884.
Moryson, F. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the
Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland,
Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ire-
land. Written by Fynes Moryson Gent. 4 vols. Glasgow, 1907-8.
Shakespeare's Europe. Unpublished chapters of Fynes Moryson's
Itinerary. . . . Ed. Hughes, C. 1903.
Murray, J. T. English Dramatic Companies in the Towns outside of London.
1550-1600. Modern Philology, vol. 11, p. 539. April, 1905.
Nichols, J. The Progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth.
New ed. 4 [3] vols. 1823.
The Progresses, Processions and Magnificent Festivities, of King James
the First, his royal consort, family and court. 4 vols. 1828.
Trautmann, K. Englische Komödianten in Nürnberg, 1593–1648 [and other
papers on English actors in Germany, etc. ). Archiv für Literaturgesch.
vols. XIV and xv.
VIII. THE OFFICE OF THE REVELS.
See Cunningham, Feuillerat, Halliwell-Phillippe's Collection of Ancient
Documents, and Wallace's Children of the Chapel, as above.
Chambers, E. K. Notes on the History of the Revels Office under the
Tudors. 1906.
Feuillerat, A. Le Bureau des Menus-Plaisirs (Office of the Revels) et la
Mise en scène à la cour d'Élizabeth. Louvain, 1910.
(See also bibliography to chap. XI, post. )
IX. FOOLS AND CLOWNS.
See Chambers, as above.
Armin, R. Fools and Jesters: with a reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of
Ninnies. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1842.
The Works of Robert Armin, Actor (1605-9). Ed. Grosart, A. B. 1880.
Bolte, J. Die Singspiele der englischen Komödianten in Deutschland.
Hamburg, 1893. [Modelled on the clown's jigs. ]
## p. 467 (#485) ############################################
Chapter X
467
a
Johnson, L. P. The Fools of Shakspere, by L. P. Johnson, in Hawkins,
C. H. , Noctes Shaksperianae, p. 171. 1887. (See sec. IV, ante. )
Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder; performed in a daance from London to Norwich.
Camden Soc. Publ. 1840. Also ed. Arber, E. 1883.
Tarlton's Jests and News out of Purgatory. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O.
Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1844.
Thümmel, J. Ueber Shakespeare's Narren. Shakesp. Jabrb. vol. ix, p. 87.
1874.
Ueber Shakespeare's Clowns. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XI, p. 78. 1876.
CHAPTER XI
THE CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL AND THEIR
MASTERS
See the books of reference mentioned in General Bibliography, such as
Collier, Creizenach, Fleay, Schelling and Ward, with Stationers' register,
and Halliwell-Phillipps's Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. The important
legal documents quoted are accessible in full only in Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage and in Halliwell-Phillipps. For editions of the plays mentioned see
the bibliographies of other chapters, especially chaps. IV-VII and xIII of vol. v,
and chaps. II and xil of the present volume.
Albrecht, Alexander. Das englische Kindertheater. (Diss. ) Halle-Witten-
berg, 1883.
Baker, G. P. Endymion The Man in the Moon, by John Lyly, M.
